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Demolisher · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove K -- Chorus
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PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART S10
PART AX
13 groovesKFAXS10AJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demolisher on drums

142 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-26, toms through bars 27-28 and snare through bars 29-60, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22-26 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Demolisher -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 17, 18 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-19 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-93 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demolisher?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Demolisher hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Demolisher?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 17, 18 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED